prayers and sacrifices

Broader Term: religious practices0 Documents

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Aberle, David F. (David Friend)The peyote religion among the Navaho1966
Aijmer, GöranErasing the dead in Kaixiangong2015
Alkire, William H.The traditional classification and treatment of illness on Woleai and Lamotrek in the Caroline Islands, Micronesia1982
Amadiume, IfiAfrikan matriarchal foundations1987
Aschwanden, HerbertSymbols of death1987
Attagara, KingkeoThe folk religion of Ban Nai, a hamlet in central Thailand1984
Barrett, S. A. (Samuel Alfred)The dream dance of the Chippewa and Menominee Indians of northern Wisconsin1911
Barton, Roy FranklinThe religion of the Ifugao1946
Bascom, William RussellThe sanctions of Ifa divination1941
Bascom, William RussellThe sociological role of the Yoruba cult-group1944
Basden, George ThomasAmong the Ibos of Nigeria1966
Basden, George ThomasNiger Ibos1966
Bauer, Brian S.The sacred landscape of the Inca1998
Baumann, Max PeterMusic, dance and song of the Chipayas (Bolivia)1981
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Beaglehole, ErnestHopi hunting and Hunting fritual1970
Becker, C.The Nongkrem Puja in the Khasi Mountains (Assam)1909
Beek, W. E. A. vanFunctions of sculpture in Dogon religion1988
Bellman, Beryl LarryThe language of secrecy1984
Belo, JaneBali1953
Belo, JaneBali1949
Berliner, PaulMusic and spirit possession at a Shona bira1975
Bernshtam, T. A.Russian folk culture and folk religion1992
Bertren, Muraire deThe Nam-Giao1944
Big Man, MaxThe Beaver dance and adoption ceremony of the Crow Indians1979
Biswas, Prophilla ChanderSantals of the Santal Parganas1956
Black, LydiaThe Nivkh (Gilyak) of Sakhalin and the Lower Amur1973
Blier, Suzanne PrestonThe art of assemblage2004
Bottéro, JeanLa religion Babylonienne1952
Brenner, Suzanne AprilThe domestication of desire1998
Brundage, Burr CartwrightA rain of darts1972
Bunzel, Ruth LeahIntroduction to Zuñi ceremonialism1932
Bunzel, Ruth LeahChichicastenango1952
Burrows, Edwin G. (Edwin Grant)Flower in my ear1963
Burrows, Edwin G. (Edwin Grant)The people of Ifalik1949
Cadière, Léopold MichelThe sacrifice of the Nam-Giao1915
Cadière, Léopold MichelAnnamese and non-Annamese religions1929
Calame-Griaule, GenevièveWords and the Dogon world1986
Callaway, HenryThe religious system of the Amazulu1884
Callender, CharlesLife-crisis rituals among the Kenuz1971
Carrasco, PedroSocial organization of ancient Mexico1971
Casillas Romo, ArmandoThe shaman who defeated etsá sickness (smallpox)1996
Cerulli, ErnestaPeoples of Dar Fung1956
Chabudapasi, Taona T.H.Three ceremonies for the dead1970
Chamberlain, Von DelWhen stars came down to earth1982
Claeys, Jean YvesThe Annamese and the sea1942
Cobo, BernabéHistory of the New World1893
Collocott, E. E. V. (Ernest Edgar Vyvyan)Notes on Tongan religion1921
Cooper, John M. (John Montgomery)The Gros Ventres of Montana1957
Cornell, John B.Matsunagi1953
Courlander, HaroldThe drum and the hoe1960
Culshaw, W. J.Tribal heritage1949
Czekanowski, JanInvestigations in the area between the Nile and the Congo1917
Daneel, M. L.Environmental reform1996
Dautcher, JayDown a narrow road2009
De Viedma, AntonioDescription of Patagonia1837
Delaporte, LouisMesopotamia1925
Diamond, StanleyDahomey1996
Dieterlen, GermaineThe souls of the Dogons1942
Dieterlen, GermaineSacrifice et traitement des victimes chez les Dogon1985
Dix, GriffinThe New Year's ritual and village social structure1987
Dorsey, James OwenAn account of the war customs of the Osages1884
Du Bois, Cora AliceAttitudes toward food and hunger in Alor1941
Du Toit, Brian M.The isangoma1971
Dulawan, LourdesIfugao baki1989
Dumoutier, GustaveStudies on the religious ethnography of the Annamese1897
Dundas, CharlesKilimanjaro and its people1924
Dunn, EthelThe importance of religion in the Soviet rural community1971
Durán, Diego, d.Book of the gods and rites and the ancient calendar1975
Durán, Diego, d.The Aztecs1964
Ebihara, MayInterrelations between Buddhism and social systems in Cambodian peasant culture1966
Ebihara, MaySvay1971
Elmendorf, William W. (William Welcome)Skokomish sorcery, ethics, and society1970
Endicott, Kirk M.Batek Negrito religion1979
Estermann, CarlosThe Ambo ethnic group1976
Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan)Nuer religion1956
Faris, James C.Southeast Nuba social relations1989
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Feuchtwang, StephanDomestic and communal worship in Taiwan1974
Fewkes, Jesse WalterThe use of idols in Hopi worship1924
Field, M. J. (Margaret Joyce)Search for security1970
Fortes, MeyerThe web of kinship among the Tallensi1949
Fortes, MeyerCommunal fishing and fishing magic in the northern territories of the Gold Coast1937
Fortes, MeyerRitual festivals and social cohesion in the Hinterland of the Gold Coast1936
Fortes, MeyerReligion, morality, and the person1987
Fortune, G. (George)Shona praise-poetry1974
Foster, George M. (George McClelland)Notes on the Popoluca of Veracruz1940
Freeland, L. S. (Lucy Shepard)Pomo doctors and poisoners1923
Freeman, J. R.Formalised possession among the Tantris and Teyyams of Malabar1998
Frisbie, Charlotte JohnsonRitual drama in the Navajo House Blessing Ceremony1980
Fuchs, StephenThe Gond and Bhumia of eastern Mandla1960
Fuller, C. J.Kerala Christians and the caste system1976
Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph vonThe Sherpas of Nepal1964
Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph vonThe Sherpas of the Khumbu region1963
Furst, Peter T.Huichol conceptions of the soul1967
Furst, Peter T.Myth as history, history as myth1996
Ganay, Solange deDogon mottoes1942
Gelfand, MichaelThe spiritual beliefs of the Shona1977
Gelfand, MichaelUkama, reflections on Shona and Western cultures in Zimbabwe1981
Golovnev, A. V. (Andreĭ Vladimirovich)Siberian survival1999
Goris, R. (Roelof)The temple system1960
Goris, R. (Roelof)Holidays and holy days1960
Gough, KathleenCults of the dead among the Nayars1958
Grader, Christiaan JohanPemayun temple of the Banjar of Tegal1960
Grader, Christiaan JohanThe irrigation system in the region of Jembrana1960
Graham, David CrockettThe customs of the Ch'uan Miao1937
Graham, David CrockettThe ceremonies of the Ch'uan Miao1937
Griffiths, Walter G.The Kol tribe of central India1946
Grimble, ArthurFrom birth to death in the Gilbert Islands1921
Grühl, Max, b. 1884In the dominions of the Divine Emperor1977
Guilleminet, P.An Annamese industry1926
Gulliver, P. H.The Turkana age organization1958
Gutmann, BrunoChagga law1926
Hamdani, SalhaFemale adolescent rites and the reproductive health of young women in Morogoro Tanzania2001
Hamilton, James W.Pwo Karen1976
Handy, E. S. Craighill (Edward Smith Craighill)The native culture in the Marquesas1923
Hanks, Jane RichardsonA rural Thai village's view of human character1965
Hanks, Lucien M. (Lucien Mason)Merit and power in the Thai social order1962
Harrell, StevanWhen a ghost becomes a god1974
Harrell, StevanThe ancestors at home1976
Hart, David M.An 'Imarah in the central Rif1957
Hart, KimberleyThe orthodoxization of ritual practice in western Anatolia2009
Hart, KimberleyPerforming piety and Islamic modernity in a Turkish village2007
Henderson, Helen KreiderRitual roles of women in Onitsha Ibo society1980
Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean)Dahomey, an ancient West African kingdom1967
Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean)An outline of Dahomean religious belief1933
Heusch, Luc deHeat, physiology, and cosmogony1980
Hickey, Gerald CannonRhadé1964
Hieb, Louis A.Hopi world view1979
Hilger, M. Inez (Mary Inez)Chippewa child life and its cultural background1951
Hockings, PaulOn giving salt to buffaloes1968
Hoernlé, Winifred The expression of the social value of water among the Naman of South-West Africa1923
Hollan, DouglasPockets full of mistakes1988
Holleman, J. F.Some 'Shona' tribes of Southern Rhodesia1959
Hollis, Alfred ClaudSome Dorobo beliefs1909
Huke, Robert E.Economic geography of a north Burma Kachin village1954
Ingersoll, Jasper CookeMerit and identity in village Thailand1975
Izikowitz, Karl GustavLamet1951
Izikowitz, Karl GustavThe community house of the Lamet1985
Izikowitz, Karl GustavFastening the soul1985
Janashia, N. S.The Religious beliefs of the Abkhasians1937
Janašvili, MoseAbkhazia and the Abkhaz1894
Jensen, ErikThe Iban and their religion1974
Kahari, George P.The history of the Shona protest song1981
Kamakau, Samuel ManaiakalaniKa po'e kahiko1968
Keeling, RichardCry for luck1992
Kendall, LaurelShamans, housewives and other restless spirits1985
Kenna, Margaret E.Greek urban migrants and their rural patron saint1977
Kennedy, John G.Mushahara1967
Kennedy, John G.Nubian zar ceremonies as psychotherapy1967
Kennedy, John G.Dhikr rituals and culture change1978
Kennedy, John G.Circumcision and excision ceremonies1978
Kennedy, John G.Nubian death ceremonies1978
Khaleque, KibriaulGaro of Bangladesh1988
Klass, MortonFrom field to factory1978
Klunzinger, C. B.Upper Egypt1878
Korn, Victor EmanuelThe village republic of Tenganan Pegeringsingan1960
Kreinovich, E. A.Hunting of the beluga by the Gilyaks of the village of Puir1935
Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis)The Yokuts language of south central California1907
Kunstadter, PeterEthnic group, category, and identity1979
La Flesche, FrancisThe Osage and the invisible world1995
Lambrecht, FrancisThe Mayawyaw ritual1941
Lambrecht, FrancisThe Mayawyaw ritual1957
Landes, A.Notes on the customs and popular superstitions of the Annamese1882
Landes, A.Notes on the customs and popular superstitions of the Annamese1881
Landes, A.Notes on the customs and popular superstitions of the Annamese1881
Lange, Werner J.Kafa1982
Lange, Werner J.Dialectics of divine 'kingship' in the Kafa highlands1976
Leclère, AdhémardThe Buddhism of Cambodia1956
Ledgerwood, JudyA tale of two temples2011
Lehtisalo, ToivoSketch of a mythology of the Yurak Samoyed1924
Lemaistre, DenisThe deer that is peyote and the deer that is maize1996
León-Portilla, MiguelThe broken spears1962
LeVine, Robert AlanGusii funerals1982
Liffman, Paul M.Gourdvines, fires, and Wixárika territoriality2000
Linton, RalphThe sacrifice to the morning star by the Skidi Pawnee1922
Little, Kenneth LindsayThe Mende of Sierra Leone1951
Loeb, Edwin M. (Edwin Meyer)In feudal Africa1962
Loeb, Edwin MeyerMentawei religious cult1929
Loeb, Edwin MeyerMentawei social organization1962
Lothrop, S. K. (Samuel Kirkland)A Quiché altar1926
Lowie, Robert HarryThe Sun dance of the Crow Indians1921
Lowie, Robert HarryThe religion of the Crow Indians1922
Lowie, Robert HarryThe Hidatsa sun dance1921
Lugg, Harry CampAgricultural ceremonies in Natal and Zululand1929
Lumholtz, CarlUnknown Mexico1973
Lumholtz, CarlThe Huichol Indians of Mexico1898
MacLean, HopeThe "deified" heart2000
Madan, T. N.Superstition in the daily life of Kashmiri Pandits1952
Malarney, Shaun KingsleyThe limits of 'state functionalism' and the reconstruction of funerary ritual in contemporary northern Vietnam1996
Mandaza, Dominic M.Traditional ceremonies which persist1970
Margetts, Edward L.On the Masai E-Unoto1963
Marriott, McKimWestern medicine in a village of northern India1955
Martin, EmilyThe Thai Ti Kong festival1981
Martini, FrançoisThe Cambodian bonze1953
McClintock, WalterThe old north trail1968
McCreery, John LinwoodThe symbolism of popular Taoist magic1983
Mencher, Joan P.Namboodiri Brahmins1966
Mensa-Bonsu, Henrietta J.Place of 'oaths' in the constitutional set-up of Asante1989
Mercier, P. (Paul)The Fon of Dahomey1954
Métraux, AlfredThe Uru-Chipaya Indians of Carangas1935
Monod, G. H. (Guillaume-Henri)The Cambodian1952
Monteil, CharlesThe Bambara of Ségou and Kaarta1924
Morgan, WilliamNavaho treatment of sickness1931
Morizon, RenéThe Cambodian province of Pursat1956
Morton-Williams, PeterThe Atinga cult among the south-western Yoruba1956
Motolinía, Toribio, -1568Motolinia's history of the Indians of New Spain1951
Mpondi, SimplicioHonour thy grandfather1970
Mukherjea, CharulalThe Santals1962
Mukherjee, BhabanandaA magico-religious ceremony in connection with the disease of a Garo1962
Munro, Neil GordonAinu creed and cult1963
Murie, James R.Ceremonies of the Pawnee1989
Murra, John V.The economic organization of the Inka State1980
Musters, George ChaworthAt home with the Patagonians1873
Musters, George ChaworthOn the races of Patagonia1872
Myerhoff, Barbara G.Peyote hunt1974
Myhre, Knut ChristianDivination and experience2006
Naff, AlixaBelief in the evil eye among the Chriatian Syrian-Lebanese in America1965
Nash, ManningBurmese Buddhism in everyday life1963
Neff, Deborah L.Aesthetics and power in Pāmbin Tullal1987
Ngubane, HarrietBody and mind in Zulu medicine1977
Nguyen, Văn KhoanEssay on the Dinh and the cult of the guardian spirit in the villages of Tonkin1930
Nguyen, Văn KhoanOn the taking of oaths among the Annamese1943
Nimmo, HarryThe sea people of Sulu1972
Nimmo, HarryMagosaha2000
Nimmo, HarryReligious beliefs of the Tawi-Tawi Bajau1990
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Nyatsanza, SydneyA Rainmaking ceremony and the burial of a chief1970
Oakes, MaudThe two crosses of Todos Santos1969
Opler, Morris EdwardThe extensions of an Indian village1956
Ortner, Sherry B.Sherpas through their rituals1978
Ortner, Sherry B.High religion1989
Ory, PaulThe Annamite commune at Tonkin1894
Osella, FilippoMigration and the commoditisation of ritual2003
Östör, ÁkosThe play of the gods1980
Oyler, D. S.Nikawng's place in the Shilluk religion1918
Padden, R. C.The hummingbird and the hawk1970
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Parry, N. E. (Neville Edward)The Lakhers1932
Paul, Robert A.The Tibetan symbolic world1982
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Phillips, Herbert P.Thai peasant personality1966
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Pilz, AnnemarieManang Jabing Anak Incham1988
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Rasoul, Kawthar AbdelZar in Egypt1955
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Ridington, RobinAll old spirits have come back to greet him1997
Riedel, J. G. F. (Johan Gerard Friedrich)Galela und Tobeloresen1885
Rodas N., FlavioChichicastenango1940
Rodnick, DavidAn Assiniboine horse-raiding expedition1937
Roscoe, JohnThe Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectorate1924
Rounds, John C.Curing what ails them1982
Rowe, John HowlandInca culture at the time of the Spanish conquest1946
Sadan, MandyRespected grandfather, bless this Nissan2005
Sadan, MandyTranslating gumlau2007
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Sahagún, Bernadino de, -1590General history of the things of New Spain1951
Sahagún, Bernadino de, -1590General history of the things of New Spain1953
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Sahagún, Bernadino de, -1590General history of the things of New Spain1959
Sahagún, Bernadino de, -1590General history of the things of New Spain1969
Sango, PeterSome important ceremonies1970
Sather, CliffordThe Bajau Laut1997
Schaefer, Stacy B.The loom and time in the Huichol world1989
Schaefer, Stacy B.Introduction1996
Schaefer, Stacy B.The crossing of the souls1996
Schaefer, Stacy B.The cosmos contained1996
Schefold, ReimarThe culinary code in the puliaijat ritual of the Mentawaians1982
Schefold, ReimarLia1988
Schefold, ReimarThe Sacrifices of the Sakuddei (Mentawai Archipelago, Western Indonesia)1980
Schefold, ReimarThe Siberut Project1980
Schipper, Kristofer MarinusThe written memorial in Taoist ceremonies1974
Scott, James GeorgeThe Burman1910
Seeland, NicolasThe Gilyaks1882
Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel)The Veddas1911
Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel)The Nuba1965
Serpenti, L. M.Cultivators in the swamp1965
Serpenti, L. M.The ritual meaning of homosexuality and pedophelia among the Kimam-Papuans of South Irian Jaya1984
Sharp, LauristonBang Chan1978
Shaw, K. C.Some preliminary notes on Luo marriage customs1932
Shternberg, Lev IAkovlevichThe Gilyak, Orochi, Goldi, Negidal, Ainu1933
Silva, Ramón Medina"How one goes being Huichol…"1996
Sinha, TarunchandraThe Psyche of the Garos1966
Skrefsrud, Lars OlsenTraditions and institutions of the Santals1942
Smith, Edwin WilliamThe Ila-speaking peoples of Northern Rhodesia1920
Sosa, John R.The Maya sky, the Maya world1999
Southall, AidanLineage formation among the Luo1952
Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith)Oklahoma Delaware ceremonies, feasts and dances1937
Spier, LeslieYuman tribes of the Gila River1933
Spiro, Melford E.Ifaluk1949
Sprenger, GuidoBone transfers2006
Sprenger, GuidoThe way of the buffaloes2005
Sprenger, GuidoPolitical periphery, cosmological center2006
Stegmiller, P. F.Sacrifice and sacrificial customs of the Khasi1924
Stephen, Alexander MacGregor, -1894Hopi journal of Alexander M. Stephen1969
Stoller, PaulFusion of the worlds1989
Taylor, Douglas MacRaeThe interpretation of some documentary evidence on Carib culture1949
Tedlock, BarbaraZuni sacred theater1983
Thomas, Northcote WhitridgeAnthropological report on the Ibo-speaking peoples of Nigeria1913
Thompson, John Eric SidneyEthnology of the Mayas of southern and central British Honduras1930
Thurston, EdgarBadaga1909
Tippett, Alan R. (Alan Richard)Fijian material culture1968
Toganivalu, DeveThe customs of Bau1912
Tooker, ElisabethThe Iroquois ceremonial of Midwinter1970
Tozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston)Notes on religious ceremonials of the Navaho1909
Tran-Nuong HanManners and customs of the people of Annam1882
Turner, GeorgeSamoa, a hundred years ago and long before1884
Uchiyamada, YasushiPassions in the landscape2000
Vadakkiniyil, DinesanImages of transgression2010
Valadez, SusanaWolf power and interspecies communication in Huichol shamanism1996
Vega, Garcilaso de laFirst part of the Royal commentaries of the Yncas1963
Villa, Susie HoogasianArmenian village life before 19141982
Voget, Fred W.Adaptation and cultural persistence among the Crow Indians of Montana1980
Volkman, Toby AliceFeasts of honor1985
Wachtel, NathanGods & vampires1994
Wagley, CharlesThe social and religious life of a Guatemalan village1949
Wang, Shih-ch'ingReligious organization in the history of a Taiwanese town1974
Wang, ZhushengThe Jingpo1997
Waterhouse, JosephThe king and people of Fiji1866
Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot)Yurok marriages1934
Weltfish,GeneThe lost universe1965
Westermarck, EdwardRitual and belief in Morocco1926
Wildschut, WilliamCrow Indian medicine bundles1960
Wilkinson, R. J. (Richard James)Life and customs1925
Willerslev, RaneSpirits as 'ready to hand'2004
Wilson, GodfreyThe constitution of Ngonde1939
Wilson, Gordon M.Luo customary law and marriage laws customs1961
Wilson, Monica HunterCommunal rituals of the Nyakyusa1959
Wilson, Monica HunterFor men and elders1977
Winstedt, RichardThe Malay magician1961
Wissler, ClarkThe Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians1918
Wu Che-linStudies of Miao-I societies in Kweichow1942
Wyman, Leland CliftonNavaho Striped Windway1946
Wyman, Leland CliftonNavaho Upward-reaching-way1943
Yasumoto, MasayaThe psychotropic kiéri in Huichol culture1996
Yi, Kwang-gyuFamily and religion in contemporary Korea1984
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